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Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz announced on November 4, 2013, that Beinart would be hired as a columnist beginning January 1, 2014.[12] The same day, the Atlantic Media Company said Beinart would join National Journal and write for The Atlantic's website beginning in January. Beinart would cease operating his blog at The Daily Beast.[13]

Works and views

Beinart is the author of the book, The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, published in 2006. Drawing upon the work of the mid-century American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Beinart argues that, paradoxically, the only way for America to distinguish itself from the predatory imperial powers of the past is to acknowledge its own capacity for evil.

Beinart was a vocal supporter of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq but by 2006 as he published his first book, he "had concluded that it had been a tragic mistake", according to George Packer in The New Yorker. His second book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, published in 2010, in Packer's words, "look[ed] back at the past hundred years of U.S. foreign policy in the baleful light of recent events [and found] the ground littered with ... the remnants of large ideas and unearned confidence [as demonstrable in] a study of three needless wars", the World War I, Vietnam War, and the Iraq War. [8]

In the much commented 2010 essay "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment" in the New York Review of Books,[14] Beinart has argued that the tensions between liberalism and Zionism in the U.S. may tear the two historically linked concepts apart. He argued that by abetting Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, American Jewish leaders risk alienating generations of younger American Jews who find the occupation to be morally wrong and incompatible with their liberal politics.[3]

He expanded on this argument for his 2012 book, The Crisis of Zionism. He has warned that greater military engagement against ISIS could be detrimental to America.[15]

Personal life

Since 2003, Beinart is married to Diana Robin Hartstein, a lawyer. They live with their two children in New York City.[7] He keeps kosher,[3] regularly attends an Orthodox synagogue and sends his children to a Jewish school.[16]